Every organized religion has the same basic bottom line: WE are right &
everyone else is wrong... Duhhhh! As young children, we were all fed
the same BS our parents were fed by their parents... on & on, back in
time. Most people are so well indoctrinated & brain-washed that they
completely fail to realize, recognize or accept that fact, rejecting
even the possibility. It is this kind of sad manipulation that gets
weak-minded people to fly planes into buildings. It is a very subtle
form of hypnosis on a grand scale that's been going on for so many
centuries that it has become invisible to all but those w/ a sane and
logical mind. In nearly all cases, it is forced upon us from birth
under local culture & society through chastisement & ridicule by our
own friends & relatives. It uses the 'need to belong' & natural want of
acceptance in an insidious way. The conclusion is very simple: Those
who disagree with any of this don't even know they are sheep.

I was the Chairman of Inner City Angels in 1983. As the Chairman I was
concerned about the "Balloon Race" for the above reason and also I did
not want young children knocking on stranger?s doors asking for
donations. So I came up with another way to raise funds for the Inner
City Angels art activities. I proposed that we publish a "Who's Who in
Toronto" book. I estimated that we would raise over $250,000 for the
arts. I explained to the board my concern about the "Balloon Race" and
why I felt that this fund raiser would be more appropriate and not
cause the concerns I had about children's safety and the environment.
The board voted not to go ahead. They did not want to risk any funds on
such an unknown undertaking. They were satified with the growth and
funds they were getting from this Balloon event. The only Board member
who supported my idea was the Toronto Star's restaurant food critic,
the wonderful but alas departed Brent Thrall.

I resigned shortly thereafter and started the Community Homes for the
Mentally Handicapped. I then took my own funds and produced in 1984 the
historically acclaimed "Who's Who in Toronto: A Celebration of this
City. The book was an immediate best seller raising over $250,000. The
Toronto Star covered the City Hall launch on its front page. The book
had 598 pages with hundreds of photos of the rich, famous and not so
famous people. I even included the Inner City Angels. Today you can
only find it in the reference library.

It was ironic when in 1989 the Chairman of Inner City Angels approached
me for help in coming up with another fund raiser. It seemed that the
city had stopped their environmental unfriendly fund raiser.
Unfortunately, I could not since I was putting together the "Climb for
Hope" Mount Everest Expedition to raise international awareness and
funds for Rett Syndrome as I had change the charities name to better
reflect the disorder that my daughter has.

Today, I am in Tianjin, China sell my patent pending Knowledge
Generator software system to the Government and students of China and
came across this article. Now you know some of the other sequence of
events.

I will miss both Martin & Barry. They both had a unique style that you
either loved or hated. Either way, you remembered them.

My biggest problem with the whole thing was how The Edge completely
erased any existance of them from their website, without any words of
thanks or well wishes. Especially for Martin.

I mean the guys had been there over 20 years? You gain a large
following of fans with that longevity and without offering some sort of
honour to such a long-time employee is insulting to Martin, as well as
the Edge listeners who enjoyed listening to him.

I understand that changes like this sometimes need to be quick and
dirty to minimize a backlash and to move forward more quickly, but it
is a cowardice, weak and disrespectful way of doing things.

I'm not as upset that Martin and Barry are gone, it's how The Edge
handled it. At the very least, allow Martin and Barry to post a
farewell letter where they can say goodbye to their fans and to comment
on the good times they had while at The Edge. By not doing so, The Edge
management appears to be insensitive to their own listeners who connect
with the talent they promote.

The Edge ties so hard to create the feeling of belonging to their radio
community. So when they take someone away with out giving the audience
a chance to say goodbye, it feels like you lost a family member. I know
that sounds cheesy but it does. It makes me feel like the Edge doesn;t
give a shit about their listeners.

Well you know what Edge, after a stunt like this, I'm starting feel
like I don;t give a fuck about you anymore. Way to alienate your own
listeners. Fuck you.

watched them this morning discussing how archaeology was a difficult
word to spell, then the girl decided to try to spell it out...she
spelled it out as archeology, which is still right, but then everyone
else there (ann and matt) were all impressed (after saying, "wow, well
i have no idea how to spell it, but that sounds good...well done") and
then went on to discuss how spelling is hard...i was forced to change
the channel. I've never heard such awful banter.

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If you guys don't like the show so much why are you still watching it?
There's BT and Canada AM to choose from. Ann Rohmer and the new cast
of CP24 Breakfast don't suck. What sucks is the fact that both BT and
CP24 Breakfast are being produced at 299 Queen St and there is tension
between the two groups. You want to blame someone? Blame Ivan Fecan.

I do agree that the new cast needs to go. My biggest problem is with
that new guy. Not only is he quite often inappropriately dressed to be
on the news, but he also speaks out of turn, often trampling over his
female co-host. He speaks too much and too loudly. Moreover, his
discussion pieces and responses are rather inappropriate. Don't tell me
on a morning news show, you're talking about your younger sister
wanting to buy a g-string! Like really? As a 'professional' I would
have hoped he knew when professionalism was warranted!

Generally, I support change, but only when it's for the good. This show
has not been improved upon; in fact it has lost its shine.

John, I too loved the closing themes from Sportsline. The two primary
ones were: "Together in Electric Dreams Extended Mix" from the movie
Electric Dreams and "The Escape" from the movie The Electric Horseman.
Everytime I hear either one I see a slow-motion clip of someone jumping
over the outfield fence while making a snowcone catch at Exhibition
Stadium. I don't think that I'm the only one that has the same
reaction. They didn't play the music as much after Hebscher left I
seem to recall, I guess he took his LPs with him.

Excuse me, but are you on crack or something? Toronto needs an oldies
station like I need a hole in my head. I'm glad that it's gone, and
hopefully Bob & June Baby Boom can get off of their asses and go and
buy classic rock at the record store like they used to before some
asshole on Madison Avenue decided that everybody had to hear the
Beatles five times a day on radio. Good riddance.

I only wish that this organization, which started in the 1980's, was
still around:

For the fledgling American Association for the Advancement of Time,
this may be the finest hour. Yet its members - all three of them - vow
never to look back longingly on these early days since their purpose is
to make nostalgia a thing of the past.

Right now they are basking in the sunlight of publicity, three men in
their 20's who are sick of 60's.

There is Eugene Dillenburg, the registrar of a small college in
Chicago, who unwittingly triggered the publicity by handing out
humorous fliers at a performance of a theater group called the
Neofuturists. There is Bruce Elliott, a Los Angeles social worker, who
suspects he became the organization's president ''because I'm the only
one who has met the other two.'' And there is John Kinney, a bartender
in Flushing, Queens, who discovered his parents' Beatles records at the
age of 12 and has been playing them ever since.

Even as they listen to ''Yesterday,'' though, they speak as ''the
unofficial voice of a forgotten generation'' that finds itself trapped
in another generation's nostalgia, 1980's style: ''classic rock''
radio, Vietnam retro television series, tie-dyed fashions, ''The Wonder
Years,'' the California Raisins dancing to ''I Heard It Through The
Grapevine.''

If the 1960's generation wants to live in a warped version of its past,
fine, Mr. Dillenburg said, ''but their sheer numbers are forcing me to
live in their past.''

Mr. Kinney said, ''The 80's pop culture is so firmly entrenched in the
60's, that kids who would otherwise be discovering the world around
them are wishing they had gone to Woodstock.'' Crushing Creativity

The reason their generation is criticized as one without a culture,
they said, is that the weight of baby-boom demographics or ''the media
nostalgia complex'' is crushing creativity or driving it underground.

''The boomers are a big market so advertisers want to reach them,'' Mr.
Dillenburg said. ''Radio wants advertisers so they pander to the
boomers. Here in Chicago we have eight or nine oldie stations, which
leaves little room for what we call the 80's culture.''

What exactly is the 80's culture? Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, MTV will
be among the mass memories, but not necessarily the particular memories
of these three men. They can cite obscure post-punk bands and
avant-garde theater groups. They are thinking of writing a primer on
contemporary culture. Sudden Fame

Like this culture, they, too, have been underground. But suddenly, a
week or so ago, the members of the Association for the Advancement of
Time found themselves in journalism's glare. It seems one of the fliers
given to the Neofuturists inspired an article in a weekly newspaper,
The Chicago Reader, which touched off an Associated Press story, then a
story on page 1 of USA Today. The headline read, ''Boom lowered on baby
boomer 'culture.' '' Fame. It felt good. In New York, The Daily News
ran an editorial accusing the group of sour grapes and speculating that
what they will look back on are fax machines and oat bran. There were
radio and television interviews.

What began almost as a lark had taken a serious turn, too serious in
their view. But there have been comic moments such as the call from a
Minnesota television station. Would one of them care to fly out for a
Vietnam debate with an actor on the television series ''China Beach''?

In Los Angeles, Mr. Elliott roared. ''This was not a real Vietnam vet,
but a guy who only plays a vet on TV,'' he said. ''It was beyond
satire.''

Since falling into the mainstream news, they say they have received
more than 200 letters. Some were of the ''You brats, how dare you?''
variety, but most were requests for information on membership, goals
and programs.

As a result, the trio has been conferring at least once a day by phone
(not very 80's, but their computer systems are incompatible). They are
thinking of setting up an anti-nostalgists' electronic bulletin board
and they already have a few goals.

One is to understand the past and put it in perspective. ''What's
happening is people are remembering Woodstock and forgetting Altamont,
remembering the Monkees and forgetting the women's movement,'' Mr.
Kinney said.

He added that another is to keep a vision of the future, saying, ''What
made the 60's a vibrant time was the idea of walking on the moon,
looking forward.''

For the group's Boycott-the-Past campaign, Mr. Kinney is passing out
fliers this weekend at the site of the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing,
next to the Unisphere. Why?

''Well,'' Mr. Elliott said, ''they're celebrating the 25th anniversary
of the '64 World's Fair, which in itself was the 25th anniversary of
the '39 World's Fair. So it's the 50th anniversary of World of
Tomorrow.

''But the ultimate statement is that 25, 50 years later, we're not
doing anything like that. All we're doing is remembering the future as
seen in the past, which is pretty weird.''

Then, if you truly do, you'll buy or download your favorite music
instead of just expecting CTV Globemedia to keep on subsidizing a
station who listeners were dying off anyway (if it were me, I would
have got rid of the oldies format, and replaced it with a new music
format in AM stereo, and hire the New Musical Express to run the
station, playing current Canadian and British rock and roll/dance/pop.)
That's what Toronto really needs.

For all it's worth, I hope that you get to save the CHUM charts, but to
be brutally frank, it's time for you nostalgia addicts to join the 21st
century-either that, or give up rock music and listen to something
else.

As for losing a radio station, you think that you have it bad? The
listeners and DJ's at CKLN radio have had their formats and shows
forcibly pulled off of the air by the unelected student body at
Ryerson, and that station was a 1000 times better that 1050 CHUM.

I happen to like Christmas music! Its my favourite holiday and its only
once a year! It helps me get into the Christmas spirit and I listen to
those stations that play 100% Christmas music! GO CHRISTMAS

Honestly, I don't understand why everyone must complain so much. The
original show isn't even off the air, just on a new channel! No one is
forcing you to watch the new show. Matte and Melissa may not be the
best but I think you people fail to realize that things do change. If
you don't like it then don't watch. Everyone doesn't have to be so rude
and say they're a bunch of idiots who don't know what they're doing
because that's just immature of you to say.

Okay, here's the deal on H&F. I'm 25 and I probably first started
listening to them when I was around 12-13. I loved them and grew up
loving them. In fact if someone announced to me today that H&F were
returning to the airwaves I'd probably get excited just enough to nail
my wife.

But let's look objectively at what the Edge is... It is a young
station aimed at YOUNG PEOPLE. Right now there are probably hordes of
12-20 yearolds loving Blundell who have never even heard of H&F or only
have vague memories of them. What do H&F mean to these people?
Nothing. So in 10 years, hell in 5 years when these people are buying
cars, cell phones and beer (which are all major sponsors for the Edge)
and H&F are pushing 50 will they still be able to relate to these kids?
Does a 16 year old who is a future key demographic for the Edge really
care to listen to H&F reminisce about things that happened before they
were born? How much longer could H&F be successful on the Edge?

Having said that, this is not a bad thing. Everybody turns 40,
everybody turns 50. To be honest I think Humble sounds great at his
new gig on EZ Rock. I think, it suits him at this stage in his life a
little more then the Edge does. Personally I'd love hear H&F together
again on a station like Q or Jack FM, where they could still be edgy
and even lament about the old days. Somebody mentioned the idea of a
Classic Alternative station, wouldn't that be a much better fit for an
H&F reunion? A station that focuses on the rock of the 90's lead by
the two guys who dominated rock radio in the 90's?? It maybe a little
niche right now but give'er another 5-10 years and I wouldn't be
surprised if somebody tries it.

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Being more versed in coffee, i find it astonishing how far backwards
Canada is about it, but Canada seems to be in the midst of a war
against quality, or perhaps it's just against individuality-- at
Starbucks everyone can have a coffee tailored specifically to them, at
tim hortins everyone drinks the same thing. Even 3rd world Asia has
some better coffee shops. In Canada mostly all you see is Tim Hortons
or Coffee time and they are no different than 7/11 or any gas station
in the states, they don't even make any specialty coffee except what
comes from a coffee vending machine where there is no skill on the part
of the barista and where it's loaded with sugar. In the states they
have these same exact machines but where you stick 75 cents in them and
it drops a cup and pours the coffee. These are not real
lattes/cappucinos etc, if anything they might be considered terrible
mocha's. Real cappucinos and lattes do not have sugar added by default.
Tim Hortins is a total abomination, but i guess they just rely on
anti-americanism and herd behavior to stay in business. Great!! enjoy
your mass produced gas station vending machine coffee together sheep,
ill enjoy a nice grande latte for roughly the same price-- a latte that
doesn't come from a machine, or taste like chocolate syrup. I guess
that makes me some sort of arrogant self-centered snob because i prefer
quality coffee specially tailored to my taste. So be it.

It's me again. Thanks for your continued support and kind words which
mean so much to me. I want to let you know that I'll be back on the
radio beginning this weekend as the co-host of The 80s Show (alongside
the terrific KCC). In one of life's strange twists, this show airs on
97.3 EZRock in Toronto and on a bunch of other Astral Media owned
EZRock stations across Canada. In Toronto, check out it out on
Sunday mornings from 10am-12pm. I'll be on the EZRock morning show
tomorrow morning to chat about this (strange, I know!). I'm excited
about this show and delighted to be back on the airwaves. It's a good
start as I continue to look for the right opportunity to get back to it
full-time.

I'd love it if you'd give a listen and let me know what you think.
You can find me on Facebook...let's keep in touch.

Toronto's crime rates are falling, and given the fact that I walk in
different parts of the city and feel comfortable.

He conveniently forgets that Toronto's record for homicides was set
quite awhile ago (1991, about 20 years ago!). Does he remember how
shitty pretty much all of Queen West was? Now it's diversified in
income, and Parkdale isn't just for the mentally ill anymore. The area
I grew up in today no longer sees the kind of illegal dumping it did 20
years ago, and the retail strip which was a bunch of abandoned
storefronts 20 years ago is now vibrant with pedestrians commercial
activity.

The smelly factories are gone as well. There are more festivals, and
more tourists. We're restoring old buildings rather than knocking them
down. The progress is tangible. Certain areas in the city have
declined, while others have been revived. This is natural and happens
in every city.

I often compare my taxes with friends and family living around Toronto
and with my real estate in the US, and the rate is surprisingly
comparable, except that I get more services and get to live in a more
cosmopolitan place. Argie's some provincial WASP lamenting the good 'ol
days. Like some reactionary, with tones of fascism in his homophobia,
ambiguously insinuating that the tolerant, liberal society is someone
negative.

Walt was like my brother. My best friend from age 3 right through
school. He was a loyal friend through thick and thin. That goal "rollin
rollin rollin" - that was just like his life. He kept rollin. We
started watching the Stooges in kindergarden and never looked back.
Mike Martin (I remember you well - you were the other guy in public
school we wouldn't fight)- you nailed it. He liked to beat us at
everything. He was the best at all sports. He won most of the time at
board games. He even won at ramdom stuff like cards and dice games. He
was a winner. His first game of organized junior peewee hockey he held
the puck on a string and scored 6 easy goals. That was his last game of
"junior" peewee as well. He was the first to "roof" one playing
baseball at Algonquin school and to dunk on those 8 foot hoops. He
loved a good time and knew what one was and a great friend to many. RIP
buddy

I also am looking for a jewelery image out of a 1981 or 1982 catalogue.
My parents gave me a ring for my 16th birtday with a beautiful poem
about my birth attached to it. The ring disappeared some years ago and
I would like to find a picture of it. My mother is very ill with
dimentia and I would like to bring this memory back to her if possible
while I still can. Any information would be greatly appreciated as to
where I could get this image.

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Hey Leafs Fans!

Come down to Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto on Thursday, October 9 to celebrate the first game of the Toronto Maple Leafs 2008-09 season. There will be an outdoor, big-screen broadcast of the regular season game between the Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings. A lucky fan (19 years and older) will also have the chance to win Seasons Tickets for the 2009-10 Leafs season in the Smirnoff Ice box at Air Canada Centre. The festivities start at 12 noon, so come by for your chance to win and cheer on the Leafs!

P.S. I just looked at their financial statements and, no surprise, learned that they are making money hand over fist. Moreover, I learned that the majority shareholder is the Pritzker family which is one of the wealthiest in the US. Penny Pritzker is a major fundraising organizer for Obama... the things you learn.

This company has scammed too many of us. Does anyone know how to start a class action law suit against Prima World Wide including Vic Wasyluk and Frank Macri? Perhaps we togethar can get some satisfaction, or at least put them out of business.

It's me, Stu. Before I say anything else, I want you all to know that your kind words and support mean the world to me. I am truly humbled (I know..weird choice of words) and I can't put into words how it feels to know I've made a connection with you all and we've never met! Thank you so very much!

My departure from EZ Rock was a business decision (NOT mine) and I have to respect that. I like Howard and Kim, don't know Rick personally but hear that he's a good man, and, of course, I love and miss Colleen each and every day. I also miss sharing stories with all of you and hope that someday soon we'll re-connect over the air again.

I'm on Facebook (just search 'Stu Jeffries'). Please, drop me a line so we can keep in touch, okay?

These are my favorites characters as well, but I would put Tobias as my # 1. He was is one the most underrated actors of our generation. Then Chris, then Vern, then the rest. This was absolutely my favorite show, and I saw all six years when I was 16. It is a masterpiece. Why did you pick the order of the characters that you did? RSVP.

OPRAH ... from spending several years in Jeremiah Wright's anti-American racist church, listening to sermons like "God Damn America", and giving life time achievement awards to the likes of Louis Farrakhan ... to her newest opportunistic religious beliefs ... who could possibly take Oprah seriously? This woman's ego is soooo big, being a billionaire celebrity isn't enough, she has to start her own religion ... not to mention all the additional money she is going to make selling all those book, tapes, CD's, etc. to her poor followers. Oprah's new power hungry ambitions include efforts to replace traditional America with Obama ... and access to a President she puts into office ... to her efforts at replacing Christianity with a new religion she controls. I think it's time for America to deny Oprah access to our television sets.

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I am a huge fan of Roger Rick & Marilyn since I moved to GTA 12 years ago. I think the morning show is very funny and they are very real and personable. I will definitely miss Rick Hodge and wish him all the best. I think it's amazing that they've been a winning combination for 21 or 22 years. I have tried to win Breakfast in Barbados but no luck.

The news about Rick comes just as I am trying to recover from the departure of Marilyn from Cityline. I think that she is excellent at radio and TV.

I was wondering what happened to Lauren on the morning show and I haven't heard Sarah Miller and what happened to the Sound Lounge - Corey Kimm and then Chris Biggs?

The City of Toronto will sometimes provide a free Water Trailer to events if requested (a trailer with 10 taps providing constant free cold tap water). htotogo@toronto.ca The City has 2 of these but could build more if demand is there for this free service.

Hey Mike, you have now made my life complete!!! I remember when I would only listen to this tape and the tape from `93. You definitely should send me every song from `92 and `93 *if you have them* thnx! You rock my blue jays sox!

For the circumstances, Miller is doing pretty well. There's no way to cut taxes if you need to fund transit and low income housing on top of policing and infrastructure. You could cut the perks, but it wouldn't be close to substantial in savings. Those perks were supposed to cut the risk of bribery and corruption.

It's the same old story time and time again from people who don't have a clue about what it takes to finance and run an urban municipality.

Alan Cross and the people who are making decisions at 102.1 the edge are greedy. They are heisting our youth before their eyes and the youth who listen dont even kow it. Since cross's arrival, or lets say within the last 4 years, they play more that twice as many commercials, and they're about as witty as 5 year olds with all the vulgarity of jailbirds....the djs can't even be funny with vulgarity!...fucking losers..the whole fucking station is re-todded!. They look for any way possible to rip off its customers. At edgefest yesterday there was a bout 1 portopottie for 50 people, they were hidden and hard to find as well. The beer section was so small, and you couldnt get in without lining up for 2 hours...a great way to avoid lawsuits!...You couldnt bring in your own umbrella, yet when it rained there was no shelter, you couldnt leave to your car for shelter and re-enter, because there was no re-entry, of course $5 for a small ice cream, the main band was late with no excuse or reason why.....i could go on and on here....Alan Cross, ReTodd, Huble, Booky....You're all fucking greedy, unwitty, and fucking pirates...you are ruining the spirit of this city to fill your own pockets, go fuck your selves, im going to keep traashing your station to everyone I know through this great thing called the internet....assholes!

Screw Brett. He retired and now he needs to deal with it. You can't go back and forth like this. I hate it when athletes retire and then they really don't retire. So many people with great records come back to tarnish their legacy. Retire with class like Wayne or Ripken. Brett is handling this like a child. Then again most athletes are children.

We have the same exact box, which was passed down to me from my cousin, Michael, when my brother and I were young. I now have a daughter, Harriet. We played that music box from the day she was born and it is one of the few things that comfort her, no-fail. We changed the lyrics to accommodate:

My name is Harriet
I've got a chariot
I've got a chariot
Shiny and new
I'm gonna use it
to crush some skulls
That'swhat I'm gonna do

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I had to play this song for my grade 6 class. We were going to watch a baseball game as a school and no one in my class even heard this song before. Thanks for giving my class the opportunity to hear this song.

Okay, why haven't I found your page sooner. Saw Saint Ralph pre-distribution at the Seattle Film Festival and have been trying to find a copy of the movie version of song ever since. If you are still sending these, I would much appreciate a copy.

rob ford tells it like it is...he might say stupid sh@t some times but he has a good heart and big balls...and mayor Miller is starting to look more and more like the pricipal in that movie Feris Bueller's Day off...what a jerk off

This was weird reading all of these frustrated people's stories regarding Prima. What they say is true. I bought a Prima 30" TV in Jan 2005 for $ 1500.00 from MDG (by the way MDG Computers was useless), since then I have recieved 2 new replacements from Prima and now I am looking for a third replacment in just over 3 years. I have placed 100's of calls into them and to get these results but expect to have to do the same again to get yet another TV replacement, but I dare them not to do so. Its really not about the money any more. I believe the former Employees story above spells the truth about this company. The senior management really doesn't care about the customer.

I think there were 52-54 episodes. I went to the TVO website and found descriptions of all the episodes and then posted it on Matthew Broszkowski's website forum. I'm also the one that provided him with all the videos :).

On a side note... The show "You can do it" lyrics.

Did you ever dream about the stanley cup and scored the winning goal? You got a 100 hugs from all those lugs while your parents cheered at home. You can do it, yes, yes, Yes your friends can do it. and you can to.

I was watching the last season of Gilmore Girls the other night and they made reference to Tokyo Police Club. Here is the script:

ZACK: I was in the frozen foods aisle when I get this call from Graham. You remember Graham.

LANE: From Vapor Rub? Yeah. We saw them play last year at the Mercury Lounge.

ZACK: Yeah, well, great news... They need a new guitarist, and they called me... They're going on a two-month tour this summer, and they want me to join them... and they're totally cool with you and the boys coming along... Just wait. When we're in Philly and D.C., we're going to be opening for Tokyo Police Club.

I've been listening to Darryl for 28 years now I'm sure, and have always had a desire to see what he sees. I was wondering if there's any possibility that I could co-pilot one of his flights over the GTA, to see how he does what he does so well?

I just had this verse pop into my head out of the blue today. I hadn't thought of it in over 25 years, and even when I was young I didn't know where it originated. I googled it and found this article, and I'm glad you told of the origins. You've solved a mystery for me.

BTW, one other verse I remember goes something like this: My name is Cindy, I found a penny, I found a penny all shiny and new. I'm gonna buy me all sorts of candy, that's what I'm gonna do.